1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature

The 153rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1943 and 1944.^[1]

Senators[]

portrait	name [1]	date of birth [2]	district [2]
	Benjamin J. Bowen	January 19, 1876
	Richard S. Bowers	June 18, 1900
	Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896	1st Hampden
	William R. Conley	September 1, 1900
	Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
	Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
	Joseph F. Francis	July 2, 1893
	Richard I. Furbush	January 4, 1904
	Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
	Maurice M. Goldman
	William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
	James A. Gunn	June 7, 1883
	Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
	Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
	Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
	J. Frank Hughes
	Jarvis Hunt (politician)	March 28, 1904
	Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
	Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
	Robert L. Lee
	Harold R. Lundgren	May 22, 1894
	Donald Alexander MacDonald	February 21, 1893
	John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
	James P. McAndrews
	Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
	Joseph F. Montminy
	Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
	Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
	William E. Nolen
	Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
	James Austin Peckham
	Benjamin B. Priest
	Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
	Edward Rowe (politician)	March 17, 1902
	George W. Stanton
	Everett W. Stone
	Charles F. Sullivan	October 10, 1904
	Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
	Sumner G. Whittier	July 4, 1911

Representatives[]

portrait	name [1]	date of birth [2]	district [2]
	Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	3rd Berkshire
	Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
	Theodore Andrews	August 23, 1893
	John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
	Charles J. Artesani
	Edward C. Ashworth	April 22, 1899
	William F. Askin	May 6, 1896
	Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
	Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
	Willis L. Baker	June 25, 1875
	Charles Homer Barrett	June 23, 1868
	George L. Barrus	December 15, 1880
	William R. Barry	February 2, 1905
	Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
	Walter Ray Baylies	April 28, 1902
	Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
	Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
	Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880
	Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
	Stanley John Borsa
	Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
	Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
	Clarence B. Brown	December 22, 1877
	Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
	John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
	Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
	William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
	Archie Edward Bruce	August 20, 1883
	Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
	Edward Butterworth	August 14, 1908
	Bartholomew John Callery Jr.	March 28, 1910
	Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
	Charles J. Campbell	September 28, 1877
	Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
	Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
	Edmund Euplio Capodilupo	July 7, 1913
	Enrico Cappucci	1910
	Ernest Westervelt Carman
	John Henry Carroll
	Daniel Casey	May 7, 1890
	William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)	June 27, 1905
	James Frederick Catusi
	Frank H. Chambers	June 14, 1898
	Perlie Dyar Chase	July 31, 1905
	David M. Cleary	May 9, 1901
	J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
	Robert Gerard Connolly	September 11, 1916
	Michael John Conway
	Florence E. Cook	July 8, 1908
	Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
	George Chauncey Cousens	September 20, 1905
	Earl Gustavus Crockett	March 23, 1894
	Nelson B. Crosby	June 20, 1871
	Jeremiah Dickson Crowley	May 16, 1911
	Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
	Clifford Rudolph Cusson	January 6, 1895
	Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
	Lawrence Harvard Davis
	John Joseph Deedy	September 22, 1914
	Roger Dennett	September 14, 1895
	Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
	Octave O. Desmarais	October 26, 1889
	Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
	Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
	Logan Rockwell Dickie	May 4, 1890
	Vincent B. Dignam	February 22, 1896
	Jacinto F. Diniz	October 3, 1888
	Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
	Susan Bradley Donovan	October 2, 1895
	Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
	Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
	Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
	Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
	Ernest W. Dullea	January 14, 1891
	Clifton Emerson Dwelly	January 11, 1893
	Henry Allen Ellis	November 5, 1879
	Charles Kingsbury Endicott	October 4, 1892
	Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
	George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
	Samuel Falkof
	Catherine Falvey	November 6, 1910
	John J. Falvey	February 22, 1904
	John R. Fausey	March 19, 1870
	Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
	Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
	Joseph P. Ferriter	March 25, 1905
	John Edward Flaherty	December 31, 1910
	William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
	Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
	John F. Foster
	Douglass Brooks Francis
	George Fuller	July 24, 1893
	Dana Taylor Gallup	April 14, 1885
	Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
	Avery W. Gilkerson	June 5, 1899
	John F. Gilmore	December 8, 1896
	Dennis P. Glynn	September 29, 1906
	Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
	Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
	George Greene	March 7, 1897
	Edward J. Grimley	December 15, 1915
	Frederick C. Haigis	May 10, 1903
	Edward Childs Hall	May 12, 1870
	Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
	Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.
	Charles Howard Haskell	July 26, 1878
	Lawrence Alanson Haworth	May 23, 1871
	William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
	Henry Davis Higgins	February 24, 1873
	Ralph H. Hill	February 5, 1915
	Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
	Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
	J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
	I. Grafton Howes	June 17, 1889
	Orison Valentine Hull	November 9, 1873
	Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
	Edward A. Hutchinson Jr.	December 13, 1911
	Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
	William McEwen Hyde	January 27, 1910
	Harvey Iris
	Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
	Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
	Peter John Jordan	July 23, 1910
	Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
	Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
	Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
	Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
	Richard A. Kelly	August 7, 1905
	Rudolph King	November 2, 1887
	Allan Roy Kingston	November 23, 1901
	John Quincy Knowles	May 21, 1895
	David Benjamin Lane Jr.	September 6, 1906
	George Thomas Lanigan	January 4, 1909
	Laurence W. Law
	Walter E. Lawrence	December 8, 1905
	Ralph Lerche	August 19, 1899
	Louis Lobel	August 10, 1911
	Burton Elmer Loring
	William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
	Edward Lysek	October 18, 1911
	Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
	Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
	Vincent Ambrose Mannering	July 11, 1912
	Joseph Margolis	September 28, 1908
	Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
	Thomas B. Matthews	June 24, 1874
	Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
	Charles Joseph McCaffrey	January 16, 1898
	Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
	Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
	Paul J. McCarty	July 22, 1906
	Elmer L. McCulloch
	William P. McDermott	July 4, 1870
	Patrick J. McDonough	April 29, 1911
	Harold B. L. McIntosh	November 19, 1907
	Philip McMorrow
	Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
	Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
	Arthur William Milne	March 28, 1908
	Walter James Moran	December 22, 1903
	Timothy J. Moriarty	August 6, 1909
	Lester Bertram Morley	April 19, 1903
	Edward J. Mulligan	February 8, 1907
	Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
	Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
	Michael J. Neville	October 19, 1899
	James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
	William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
	Roderick L. O'Handly
	Louis Francis O'Keefe	June 12, 1895
	Tip O'Neill	December 9, 1912
	George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
	John Thomas Padden	May 6, 1903
	Raymond P. Palmer	December 27, 1895
	Clark Brownson Partridge	August 26, 1878
	Loomis Patrick	May 4, 1907
	Oscar Houston Perkins	January 3, 1879
	Herman Peter Peterson	November 21, 1890
	Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
	Sam G. Pillsbury	March 7, 1873
	George Perry Ponte	May 24, 1905
	George William Porter	November 6, 1885
	Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
	John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
	William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
	Stuart Craig Rand	June 9, 1888
	George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
	Cornelius Edward Reddy	May 27, 1910
	Thomas Francis Reilly	August 12, 1903
	Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
	Albert E. Roberts	November 22, 1875
	William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
	Gerald F. Scally	July 17, 1905
	Alyce Louise Schlapp	November 30, 1912
	William Henry Sears Jr.	July 14, 1875
	A. John Serino	March 13, 1906
	William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
	Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
	Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
	Charles E. Shepard	September 21, 1901
	Carl A. Sheridan	March 24, 1908
	Robert T. Sisson	February 21, 1881
	Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
	Charles J. Skladzien
	Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
	H. Edward Snow	April 25, 1914
	Margaret Spear	August 10, 1882
	Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
	Avery W. Steele	August 1, 1907
	George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
	Daniel Francis Sullivan	February 15, 1904
	Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
	Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
	William F. Sullivan	August 26, 1905
	Eugene Joseph Sweeney	May 11, 1886
	Joseph James Sweeney	January 5, 1893
	Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
	Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
	John H. Taylor	1873
	Robert Leroy Taylor	November 22, 1907
	Clarence F. Telford
	Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
	James Francis Tobin	May 8, 1903
	Harold Tompkins	August 23, 1887
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	John E. Troy Jr.
	John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
	John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
	Arthur F. Verney
	James T. Violette
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	George Thomas Walsh	February 20, 1904
	Norman F. Wellen
	Joseph L. Whiton
	Frederick Willis (American politician)	May 18, 1904
	Henry D. Winslow	September 24, 1910
	Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
	Clarence A. Wood
	Arthur Eaton Young
	Arthur Lincoln Youngman

See also[]

• 1944 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 78th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

References[]

Further reading[]

• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1943.

External links[]

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1943-1944, hdl:2452/219467 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1943, hdl:2452/58055
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1944, hdl:2452/40891

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